Stabat Mater

Stabat Mater Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Pergolesi's Stabat, or the most famous lamentation of the Virgin's sorrow in the Baroque repertoire.

Cast

Nina Spinosi | soprano

Marie-Nicole Lemieux | contralto

Ensemble Matheus

Jean-Christophe Spinosi | conductor

Programme

First part of the programme

Vivaldi Laudate pueri Dominum RV 600

Scarlatti Salve Regina

In a few words

Written in Italy in the 13th century, the Stabat Mater is one of the most famous sequences in Catholic liturgy. This long Latin poem of sixty verses describes the suffering of the Virgin at the foot of the cross, where she watches her son die. From the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, composers set this moving text to music. But it was during the Baroque era that the figure of the Virgin became an even more important object of devotion, and from then on, the Stabat Mater became an essential figure in sacred music. The most famous remains that of Pergolesi, a composer who died at the age of 26, giving rise to a legend comparable to that of Mozart's Requiem.

Production Théâtre des Champs-Élysées